Peacekeepers in Karabakh may provoke resumption of military actions

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Appearance in NKR of any armed forces, even under flags of authoritative international organizations will immediately result in rapid cut of our sovereignty. The circumstance that NKR's sovereignty has not yet received recognition by the international community and we are not represented in the above-mentioned structures, may lead to a situation that our country will not be able to hold any tools guaranteed by the international law to exert pressure on those forces," NKR Deputy Foreign Minister Masis Mailyan thinks. He said, in these conditions possible engagement of peacekeeping forces will radically contradict the national interests of Artsakh. "We cannot limit our state sovereignty without getting its universal international legal recognition. Besides, it is well known fact that the cease-fire between Azerbaijan and NKR lasts only thanks to the existing military-political balance of powers, where territories, which were liberated by our army during the war imposed by Azerbaijan on us, perform strategic function," he stressed. Masis Mailyan is sure that any hasty withdrawal from the existing realities, which is not guaranteed by a number of previously ratified international agreements, will result in immediate imbalance of the above-mentioned powers and will provoke resumption of military actions with catastrophic consequences for the whole region. "The countries and organizations, which declare their interests in keeping peace and stability in the region, must support the strategic balance. They must soberly appreciate the whole complexity and fragility of the situation, undertake and insist on such moves, which will certainly assist the process of strengthening the cease-fire, systematic support of keeping the regional stability and establishing an atmosphere of tolerance. In this case the necessity of engaging peacekeeping forces will lose any sense," the NKR Deputy Foreign Minister underscored, KarabakhOpen reports.